Colombian councilor arrested after nine killed in FARC attack
Rivera council member Pedro Gil Trujillo was arrested amid claims he helped alert FARC to a February hotel attack that killed nine councilors. He denied the charges on air after police burst into his Bogota residence. Separately, al Qaeda figure Marwan Hadid al Suri was identified for assaults in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A Kremlin envoy urged diplomacy over sanctions on Iran, as Western allies seek measures over Tehran's nuclear program.
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Rivera
Bogota
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FARC
Trujillo
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Pakistan
U.S
Afghanistan
Marwan Hadid al-Suri
Khar
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Waziristan
Aftab Khan Sherpao
Associated Press
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Ayman al- Zawahhri
Osama bin Laden
Kremlin
Iran
Tehran
U.N
Oleg Ozerov
Foreign Ministry
Middle East and
North Africa
Tar-Tass
Ozerov
Interfax
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European
U.N. Security Council
Russia
West Bank Gaza clashes after treachery accusation
Violent clashes and mass protests erupted across the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Hamas and Fatah rivals traded gunfire and stones after a Hamas leader accused President Mahmoud Abbas of treachery. Abbas vowed no civil war while Hamas planned a shadow army. Gaza City saw the fiercest fighting with fifteen wounded, two seriously.
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Gaza Strip
Hamas
Fatah
Mahmoud Abbas
Abbas
Israel
Gaza City
Nepal protests erupt as security forces fire on march toward royal palace
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marching toward the royal palace face gunfire as security forces use rubber and live rounds. 243 injured 39 hospitalized, curfew extended, and mobile services cut as opposition parties reject the king’s offer. Protests intensify over February 2005 seizure of power and demand for parliament and a constitutional assembly.
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Nepal
Gyanendra
Red Cross Society
Ganesh Shrestha
Four Canadian soldiers killed by roadside blast in Kandahar
A roadside bomb in Gomboth near Kandahar killed four Canadian soldiers, the deadliest attack on Canadian forces in Afghanistan to date. Officials blamed Taliban loyalists, though no group claimed responsibility. Canada has about 2,200 troops in the region. more deaths risk escalating foreign involvement. The blast occurred as President Karzai cited foreigners fueling the insurgency.
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Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai
Gomboth
Quentin Innis
Associated Press
U.S
Canada
Stateless American found adrift on raft between Denmark and Norway
Swedish marine police probed the case of a man calling himself George Williams who drifted on a raft of four oil barrels and wood planks in Skagerak. He claimed to be stateless, born in Cape Town in 1959, and said he wanted to reach New York. He was dehydrated and frostbitten, treated at a Swedish hospital, then held in custody awaiting U.S. Embassy contact to verify identity.
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Sweden
Denmark
Norway
George Williams
Skagerak Sea
New York
Bengt Albinsson
Cape Town
South Africa
Thomas Fuxborg
Dagens Nyheter
USA
Fuxborg
Europe
U.S
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